. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. rco/xa^ t^ovcriv veKpoov,—EuR. Trcad. triste ]\[inervceSidus, et EuboiccB cautes, ultorque Caphereus.—.l^n. xi. Op-ro 6 cTTt \iyv;/aepaf at Se /xaA a;/caIxQvoevra. KekevOa SieSpafjiov es 6e TepaLcrrovEvvv^LaL KardycvTO. HoM. Cd. in. 176. 2 Krjvaiov 8 eTre/Sr)? vavcrt/cAetTTj? Ev/SotT]?. 2t-!7? 6 eirl ArjXdinoi TreStw. Ho^r. Hymn, in ApoU. 219. 4 Ot 5 Eu/Sotai/ exov /xeVea TTV&iovreq ^AjSa^reg. II. ii. 6 rjyefxovev EAe(/)77i/cop, 6^09 ApTjo?,XaA/ccoSop-TtaST]?, fxeya
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. rco/xa^ t^ovcriv veKpoov,—EuR. Trcad. triste ]\[inervceSidus, et EuboiccB cautes, ultorque Caphereus.—.l^n. xi. Op-ro 6 cTTt \iyv;/aepaf at Se /xaA a;/caIxQvoevra. KekevOa SieSpafjiov es 6e TepaLcrrovEvvv^LaL KardycvTO. HoM. Cd. in. 176. 2 Krjvaiov 8 eTre/Sr)? vavcrt/cAetTTj? Ev/SotT]?. 2t-!7? 6 eirl ArjXdinoi TreStw. Ho^r. Hymn, in ApoU. 219. 4 Ot 5 Eu/Sotai/ exov /xeVea TTV&iovreq ^AjSa^reg. II. ii. 6 rjyefxovev EAe(/)77i/cop, 6^09 ApTjo?,XaA/ccoSop-TtaST]?, fxeyaOvixoov apx^? WBavTLov Id. Aretatus rapido fervet qua gurgite pontiisEuripusque trahit, cursion niidantibus undis,Chalcidicas puppes ad iniquam chissibus Anlim.—Lrc. v. The most famous of these colonies ^ras Cumee, whicli consequently receivedthe epithet Chalcidian :—• Chalcidicaque levis tandem super adstitit arce.—Vikg. .En. vi. 17. Hfiec ego Chalcidicis ad te, Marcelle, sonabam Littoribus, fractas ubi Yesbiiis egerit iras.—Stat. Silr. iv. 4, 7 Coin of Chalcis in Eubcea. 424 EUBOEA. Book IV. in 411, ^vllich was again unsuccessful; the attacks upon it by theRomans in 207 and 192; and its destruction by Mummius. Fromits position in command of the Euripus it was termed by Philipof Macedon one of the fetters of Greece. Eretria, stood S. of Chalcis at the extre-mity of the plain of Lelan-tum, which was a bone ofcontention between the twocities. The original town,near Vatluj, was destroyedby the Persians in 49ufor the part it had taken inthe Ionian revolt, but wasagain rebuilt more to the Kastri. The defeat of the Athenians off its harbour, in 411, led toits revolt from that power. It was governed by tyrants from about 400to 341 : and was taken by the Romans and Rhodians in the war withPhilip Y. It was the seat of a philosophical school, founded by Mene-demus, and the birth-place of the tragic poet Arhgeus. The remainsof the acropolis an
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